About

Caroline Packham is an Australian artist interested in how art and creative practice influence problem solving and futures thinking. Her practice explores connection to environment, community, cognition, creativity and climate change. Her projection performance approach has evolved over several years of experimentation with handheld projectors. Caroline combines traditional art practices with projection creating warmth, texture and performance based movement as a rustic digital methodology. She aims to create work that is accessible for diverse artists, participants and audience.

Caroline has over a decade of experience in participatory environmental art, science and engineering projects, environmental learning and change programs and research and evaluation.  Caroline was the lead researcher and writer for A Travellers' Guide to Ecocentres, in part a guide for localised participatory environmental projects. 

Ongoing workshop and performance collaborators include: visual artist and dancer Minna Lappalainen (Studio Solu Finland), puppeteers/performers Nick Wilson (Snuff Puppets), Lachlan Plain (Director Sanctum Theatre, Snuff Puppets performer/show director), Erin Hall (Snuff Puppets), Aiden Min (Snuff Puppets, dancer) and Stéphane Hisler (puppeteer, dancer).

In various formations, they have presented works at Victorian festivals including: Gertrude St Projection Festival (2014-17, 22-23), Glow Winter Arts Festival (2015, 16, 18), Ballarat Laneways Festival (2015-16), Emerge in Yarra (2016), EcoArts Festival (2016), The Sustainable Living Festival in partnership with ArtPlay (2018), White Night Geelong (2018), Art After Dark (2019), Future Fest (2019) and SnuffFest 2023.